12 2 STA T .5 21 3PROCL A M AT I O N8 213 —DE C.2 0, 200 7Proclam a ti o n8213 o fDe cem b er2 0, 200 7ToImple me nta n A men d ment to t h e D om i ni c an R ep ub lic -C ent r al America- U nited S tate sF ree Trade A g reement BythePr e sid e n t of the U nited S t a tes of Am eri c a A Proc l amation 1.OnAug u st5,20 0 4 ,t heU n i te dS t a tes ente r ed int o the D o m ini c an R e p u bl ic -C entral America-United States F ree T rade Agreement ( the ‘ ‘Agreement ’ ’
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ith Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, E l Sal v ador, G uatemala, H onduras, and N icaragua (the ‘‘Agreement countries’’;). The Congress approved the Agreement in section 101(a) o f the Domini- can Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement I m- plementation Act (the ‘‘CAFTA – DR Act’’;) (1 9 U.S.C. 4011). 2. The P arties to the Agreement entered into an amendment to the Agreement on J ul y 2 7 , August 6 , and August 14, 2007 (the ‘‘Amend- ment’’;). The terms of the Amendment are contained in letters of un- derstanding between the United States and the Agreement countries described in sections 16 3 4(a)(2) and 1634(b)(2) of the Pension Protec- tion Act of 2006 (Public L aw 109–2 8 0, 120 Stat. 780). 3. Section 1634 of the Pension Protection Act authori z es the President to proclaim modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) as necessary to carry out the understandings de- scribed therein sub j ect, in the case of certain provisions of the Amend- ment, to the consultation and layover re q uirements in section 104 of the CAFTA–DR Act (19 U.S.C. 4014). 4. Section 203(o) of the CAFTA–DR Act (19 U.S.C. 4033) authorizes the President to proclaim, as part of the HTS, the provisions set out in Anne x 4.1 of the Agreement. 5. Executive Order 11651 of M arch 3, 1972, as amended, established the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA), consisting of representatives of the Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade Rep- resentative, with the representative of the Department of Commerce as Chairman, to supervise the implementation of textile trade agreements. Consistent with 3 U.S.C. 301, when carrying out functions vested in the President by statute and assigned by the President to CITA, the of- ficials collectively exercising those functions are all to be officers re- quired to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. 6. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘1974 Act’’;) (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of relevant provisions of that Act, or other acts affecting im- port treatment, and of actions ta k en thereunder. NO W , THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. B USH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Con- stitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to section 203 of the CAFTA–DR Act, section 1634 of the Pension Protection Act, section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that
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